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Review of Cold Mountain (2003)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Dec 2003

It is a promontory of undeniable beauty and occasional power, but Cold Mountain remains so dark and distant on the screen -- shivering in a…

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Review of The Cooler (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Dec 2003

It may be the best movie ever made about Vegas…

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Review of I Vitelloni (1953)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Dec 2003

Besides being the film that most influenced Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets, this 1953 release remains the last word on friendship…

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Review of Stuck on You (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Dec 2003

An almost completely unfunny comedy that comes off as an apology for all the tasteless, scatological stuff that came before in Dumb and Dumber…

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Review of Something's Gotta Give (2003)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Dec 2003

Both stars clock in considerably north of 50, and their romantic fumblings are consequently more fun to watch than anything that has ever happened…

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Review of Alien³ (1992)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Nov 2003

It's a most satisfying return to one of the few sci-fi films that deserves to be called a masterpiece…

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Review of Alien (1979)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Nov 2003

It's a most satisfying return to one of the few sci-fi films that deserves to be called a masterpiece…

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Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Nov 2003

This may be the most brilliantly made movie of the year. But you don't enjoy 21 Grams, you recover from it…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

A film that strikes me as too slick and self-satisfied by half, like its preppie, suck-up hero…

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Review of Elephant (2015)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

Evasive and maddening? You bet. Brilliant, enlightening? That, too. From where I sit, it's the most important American movie of the year…

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Review of Elephant (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

Evasive and maddening? You bet. Brilliant, enlightening? That, too. From where I sit, it's the most important American movie of the year…

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Review of Elephant (1993)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

Evasive and maddening? You bet. Brilliant, enlightening? That, too. From where I sit, it's the most important American movie of the year…

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Review of Elf (2003)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

It's a close call for a while, but at the last moment the movie finally soars…

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Review of Elephant (2010)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

Evasive and maddening? You bet. Brilliant, enlightening? That, too. From where I sit, it's the most important American movie of the year…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

A film that strikes me as too slick and self-satisfied by half, like its preppie, suck-up hero…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2014)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Nov 2003

A film that strikes me as too slick and self-satisfied by half, like its preppie, suck-up hero…

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Review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Nov 2003

Revolutions makes good on its creators' promise to fuse Kafka, Alice in Wonderland, the New Testament and The Wizard of Oz…

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Review of In the Cut (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Oct 2003

My advice is to ignore the plot holes and zero in on Campion's meticulous, non-judgmental direction and Ryan's searing performance…

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Review of The Human Stain (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Oct 2003

Never jells as compelling or satisfying drama…

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Review of Beyond Borders (2003)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Oct 2003

The picture holds up starving babies to score cheap emotional points, but it never bothers to look beyond the swollen bellies and swarming flies…

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